Tuesday, February 07, 2017

recipe: orange drizzle cake




I thought I'd resume normal service with a recipe, the first time in a long time I've posted one here. This is the result of an afternoon baking with mum yesterday. It started with some oranges that needed using, and developed from a Mary Berry plain fairy cake recipe. We decided to adapt the recipe to make one large cake and flavour it with the orange, and it was such a success that my mum made a second one today using clementines and shared it with the neighbours.

Orange Drizzle Cake

Makes one 12cm round cake. Prep time 15 minutes. Cooking time 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Ingredients

200g self-raising flour
200g caster sugar
200g softened butter
2 tsp baking powder
5 medium eggs
2 oranges
225g icing sugar

Recipe

  • Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan. Grease the sides and base of a 12cm round cake tin.
  • Combine flour, caster sugar, eggs, butter, and baking powder in a bowl. Add the zest of both oranges and the juice of half an orange to the bowl.
  • Use a whisk to beat the mixture until well combined and pour it into the cake tin.
  • Bake in the oven for between 45 minutes and an hour, until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. You may need to cover the top of the cake with tin foil to stop the cake browning too much.
  • While the cake is baking, gradually add the juice of the remaining orange to the sieved icing sugar a teaspoon at a time, stirring until it reaches a suitable consistency for drizzling.
  • Remove the cake from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack. Once cooled, drizzle with the icing.

8 comments:

  1. Oh! I do love a good drizzle cake! Your orange one sounds lovely! x

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    1. Thanks Amanda and thanks for visiting. It was very successful for such a simple recipe! A new family favourite! x

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  2. I love lemon drizzle, never tired orange. Really should. This is fab and perfect for half-term. Thank you.

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    1. Hope you had a lovely half-term Gemma. It was a good way to use up the bottom of the fruit bowl orange too! x

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  3. Ahhh who doesnt like a drizzle cake!? You've made me want to whip one up this weekend! xx

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